Mary Kissel
Editorial Page Editor, Wall Street Journal Asia
Mary Kissel is Editorial Page Editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia, based in Hong Kong. Her journalism career began at the Journal as an intern reporting from Paris, Brussels and Washington, D.C. She joined the Journal in Hong Kong in 2004 to write the "Heard in Asia" column, the paper's premier commentary on the financial markets. Her work has also been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, The Australian and the South China Morning Post. A regular guest on U.S. radio and TV, Kissel is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and an Edwards Media Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income research and capital markets specialist in New York and London. Kissel received a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Global Conference 2013
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, philanthropist Bill Gates and Strive Masiyiwa of Econet Wireless discuss advancing prosperity in Africa.